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12 December 2012

Twinsie Tuesday: Chanukah

The theme for this Twinsie Tuesday is Chanukah, and I hope all my Jewish friends and readers are having a wonderful week, celebrating the Festival of Lights with friends and family!

I had all sorts of ideas for things to do for this manicure, but somehow they just weren't translating quite right to my nails. Any fancy nail art skills just up and deserted me, so after a couple of tries that didn't do justice to the theme I decided to scale back and go with something simple but fun.

This was my first attempt at the cloud-tip design popularized by Nailside, and I was pleasantly surprised with the results! As Jane illustrates in the tutorial I linked to, you don't need any tools at all to create this design; it's all done with the polish brushes themselves in just a few simple strokes. Genius!

Given the theme is Chanukah, I chose some pretty blues and my go-to "white" for these clouds. Above and below OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, I used two Revlon Colorstay polishes, Coastal Surf and Midnight.

I'm still just a little disappointed that the candles I'd wanted to do this week didn't cooperate, but I really like this design. Looking forward to trying it again soon, as well as to seeing what the other Twinsies did for their Chanukah-inspired manicures!

Thank you for the kind words! A year ago I'd never done any nail art at all, but it's so much fun to practice. The tutorial at the Nailside link is a *great* one for beginners if you'd like to try it. :D